Closing Thoughts

Resources and Quotes on
Hope, Happiness and Healing

Resources

The Healing Story Alliance
http://www.healingstory.org/home.html (a special interest group of the National Storytelling Network)

Inspirational Stories
http://www.spiritual-endeavors.org/stories/ 

The Butterfly Website
http://butterflywebsite.com/discover/stories.cfm 

Telling My Story
http://www.tellingmystory.com/html/index.php

Poem and Story Index
http://www.geocities.com/cheryl_howard/poemsandstories.html

Chicken Soup for the Soul
http://www.chickensoup.com/stories/featured_stories_archive.html

Inspirational Quotes About Hope

Were it not for hope the heart would break. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Wait, thou child of hope, for Time shall teach thee all things. -- Martin Farquhar Tupper

We must accept finite disappointment, but we must never lose infinite hope. -- Scottish Proverb

Hope is the thing with feathers  That perches in the soul,  And sings the tune without the words,  And never stops at all,  And sweetest in the gale is heard;  And sore must be the storm  That could abash the little bird  That kept so many warm.  I've heard it in the chillest land,  And on the strangest sea;  Yet, never, in extremity,  It asked a crumb of me. -- Emily Dickinson. 

We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Never talk defeat. Use words like hope, belief, faith, victory. -- Norman Vincent Peale

Hope is always available to us. When we feel defeated, we need only take a deep breath and say, "Yes," and hope will reappear. -- Monroe Forester

We live by admiration, hope and love. -- William Wordsworth

We judge of man's wisdom by his hope. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Man is a creature of hope and invention, both of which believe the idea that things cannot be changed. -- Tom Clancy

The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that  hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof. -- Barbara Kingsolver

Practice hope. As hopefulness becomes a habit, you can achieve a permanently happy spirit. -- Norman Vincent Peale

Hope is the last thing that dies in man; and though it be exceedingly deceitful, yet it is of this good use to us, that while we are traveling through life it conducts us in an easier and more pleasant way to our journey's end. -- Francois de la Rochefoucauld

He who does not hope to win has already lost. -- Jose Joaquin Olmedo

When you do nothing, you feel overwhelmed and powerless. But when you get involved, you feel the sense of hope and accomplishment that comes from knowing you are working to make things better. -- Pauline R. Kezer

Inspirational Quotes About Happiness

Happiness depends, as Nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose." -- William Cowper

Happiness makes up in height what it lacks in length. -- Robert Frost

The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from domination of outside conditions. -- Robert Louis Stevenson

Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so. -- Robert G. Ingersoll

Celebrate the happiness that friends are always giving; make every day a holiday and celebrate just living. -- Amanda Bradley

Realize that true happiness lies within you. Waste no time and effort searching for peace and contentment and joy in the world outside. Remember that there is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving. Reach out. Share. Smile. Hug. Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself.  -- Og Mandino

When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us. -- Alexander Graham Bell

Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have. -- Rabbi Hyman Judah Schachtel
 

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction of being loved for yourself or more correctly of being loved in spite of herself.  -- Victor Hugo
 

Inspirational Quotes About Healing

Do not fear the winds of adversity. Remember: a kite rises against the wind rather than with it. -- Unknown Author
 

With the gift of listening comes the gift of healing. -- Catherine de Hueck

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by each experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, "I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along. -- Eleanor Roosevelt

Of one thing I am certain, the body is not the measure of healing, peace is the measure. -- George Melton

When you are inspired by some great purpose, some extraordinary project, (like healing a serious illness), all of your thoughts break their bonds, your mind transcends limitations, your consciousness expands in every direction and you find yourself in a new great and wonderful world. Dormant forces, faculties and talents become alive, and you discover yourself to be a greater person by far than you ever dreamed yourself to be. -- Patanjali

To ease another's heartache is to forget one's own. -- Abraham Lincoln

Love cures people -- both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it. -- Karl A. Menninger

To open the individual path inward is the most exalted of human endeavors.  -- James Perkins

Until he extends his circle of compassion to include all living things, man will not himself find peace. -- Albert Schweitzer

Healing is a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity. -- Hippocrates

Grief has a quality of healing in it that is very deep because we are forced to a depth of emotion that is usually below the threshold of our awareness. -- Stephen Levine

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